Jonik

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I'm a second-language speaker of what I believe is a fairly "neutral" flavour of English (if such a thing exists), mainly influenced by British and American varieties. I tend to prefer British spellings but I'm afraid I sound more American when I talk. :-)

I take an interest in languages, their evolution and history, and all those subtle variations between different dialects and registers. After secondary school I was actually close to going to study English Philology at university, but ended up taking Computer Science instead. Now I am a software developer by profession, and languages remain mainly a hobby for me. (Not only a hobby, as I think good prose writing skills are important in my field. For the last 7 years or so English has been the main written language I've used at work.)

Besides English and my native Finnish, I'm nowadays quite adept at Spanish too (it's my favourite language in a way, especially if spoken with a Cuban accent and when drunk). My Swedish and German are rusty, but re-learnable if need arises.

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27 Answers

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43	“Email” or “e-mail”?
15	Is there a difference between “Frenchmen” and “French men”?
15	Billion and other large numbers
13	When is it acceptable to use internet abbreviations (such as “u” or “r”)?
13	What are some expressions that can be used to end an email?

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+40	“Email” or “e-mail”?
+5	Regulatory bodies and authoritative dictionaries for English
+10	A special use of “should”?
+10	What is the etymology of “replenish”?

5 Questions

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18	Regulatory bodies and authoritative dictionaries for English
3	Using “disable” as a noun
3	Shorter way to say “split [user story] into tasks”
3	Contemporary written usage of “whom” in objective case
2	What does “ﬂy by the seat of one's pants” mean?

50 Tags

75 email × 4	26 british-english × 2
60 grammaticality × 8	16 grammar × 3
55 orthography × 2	16 american-english × 2
52 word-choice × 3	15 demonyms
43 hyphen	15 numbers